The Imitation Game (2014) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. Director: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence.

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Director: Steve McQueen With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Director: Quentin Tarantino In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth After John Nash , a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. Director: Ron Howard Edit Storyline Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Written by Studio Canal Behind every code is an enigma See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 25 December 2014 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El código enigma See more » Filming Locations: $479,352 (USA) (28 November 2014) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Matthew Beard , who plays Peter Hilton, considered the Hut 8 Team as "The Avengers in Tweed". See more » Goofs Many interviews conducted with many of the people who worked at Bletchley Park have said many times that they had been instructed not to ask about activities in other huts. There's several scenes where other characters do just that, such as when the code breakers are celebrating in the pub and ask Helen about her work in her hut and also when Joan mentions about how the girls in one hut had been in a row over events in another hut. See more » Quotes [first lines] Alan Turing : Are you paying attention? Good. If you're not listening carefully you will miss things. Important things.

I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. If you think that because you're sitting where you are and I am sitting where I am that you are in control of what is about to happen, you 're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know. Written and Performed by Ed Palermo (as Eddie Palermo) Courtesy of Warner Chappell Production Music (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews Alan Turing, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker and father of Computer Science. A great British Hero. A great hero in the fight against prejudice. This film tackles themes of prejudice against the feminine, against homosexuality and more generally against anyone who is different. How? By simply pointing out, using the example of Alan Turing and his colossal achievements, that it takes someone different to do something amazing. And an amazing story it is, packaged in a beautifully tight screenplay without a wasted scene, that keeps the audience fully engaged throughout. All the cast are on top form, in orbit around a stellar performance by Benedict Cumberbatch that layers humour, complexity, sexuality and the palpable frustration of a brilliant mind not quite able to communicate with his fellow humans.

A film that depicts a man who perhaps fails the test he invented, that is now named after him. The Turing Test. Can he fool you that he is a real human being and not a super intelligent machine? The stress of playing that Imitation Game is set into every micro twitch of the central character. Should you go see it? No special effects. No interstellar spaceships. Why not wait for the download? Go see it! Because otherwise you would be missing the chance to see a most remarkable film, performed to perfection. A film about a story that matters, about events that changed history and simply about a man without whom you might not even be able to read this review on your Turing machine. 185 of 249 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Benedict Cumberbatch on Alan Turing: 'He should be on banknotes' - Telegraph Stars and Stories Benedict Cumberbatch on Alan Turing: 'He should be on banknotes' The star of The Imitation Game on the genius of Alan Turing and harrowing lengths the state went to to 'cure' him of his homosexuality Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game Follow There is, at first, a moment of confusion. Benedict Cumberbatch is filming Richard III for the BBC’s Hollow Crown series, and yesterday, or so the publicist from the film company tells me, he fell off a horse. He’s feeling stiff and has needed a massage. Things are running a little late. It is Saturday lunchtime at a grand London hotel, and I am parked in a suite waiting to talk to Cumberbatch about his latest film, The Imitation Game , in which he plays the code-breaker Alan Turing . When he comes in – tall and rangy, dressed in a checked shirt and a quilted leather jacket – he moves and talks quickly, a fistful of nervous energy. Shades of Sherlock . I hear, I say, that you’ve had an accident and fallen off your horse.

He looks puzzled. ‘Oh no, that’s picking up fag ends...’ Fag ends? ‘That thing of going, “He’s had an accident...”’ He rolls his eyes. ‘I haven’t had an accident. I'm playing Richard III.’ Nor, it turns out, had he fallen off a horse. He can do all his own sword-fighting, but falling off horses is forbidden under insurance provisions: he just fell into shot, as if he’d fallen off a horse. ‘I was running round in the mud having a lot of fun. I mean proper mud, with men in real armour with real swords, fighting to the death. It was incredible – one of those moments where I had to pinch myself.’ Cumberbatch is not classically handsome: rather, the long, angled planes of his face and his small, far-apart eyes lend him a slightly odd, other-worldly, cerebral appearance. He is an actor who is particularly good at giving the impression of thinking, which has served him well playing roles such as Stephen Hawking, Sherlock and, indeed, Turing. So not quite handsome, yet that curious, transmogrifying power of stardom seems to have conferred handsomeness upon him.

Related Articles 13 surprising facts about Benedict Cumberbatch 01 Nov 2014 He has an army of adoring female fans that style themselves as ‘Cumberbitches’ – a term to which Cumberbatch himself has taken vocal exception in the past. ‘It sets feminism back so many notches.’ He apparently would prefer the term ‘Cumberpeople’. The Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing, the Cambridge mathematician who, working at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, invented the early computing machine that cracked the German Enigma code. Winston Churchill, a huge admirer of Turing, credited him with making the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany. This alone makes Turing a heroic figure, but it is what happened later that makes him equally a tragic one. Homosexual, in 1952 Turing was prosecuted for ‘gross indecency’ with a 19-year-old man. As an alternative to prison, he was ordered to receive treatment with oestrogen injections – chemical castration.

In 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, Turing died from cyanide poisoning. An inquest ruled that his death was suicide. In 2009, following an internet campaign, Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the government for ‘the appalling way’ Turing had been treated. And in 2013 he was granted a posthumous pardon by the Queen. The Imitation Game covers the span of Turing’s life: his faltering, adolescent love for a fellow student at Sherborne school, Christopher Morcom, who was to die at 18 from the long-term effects of the bovine tuberculosis he contracted as a child; his struggle at Bletchley Park to build his ‘Turing machine’ in the face of official obduracy and incomprehension; his short, and ill-starred, engagement to his colleague Joan Clarke (played by Keira Knightley); and his tragic death. It is the sort of film the British film industry does so well. Highly polished, with a sterling cast including Charles Dance and Matthew Goode, and an impressive attention to period detail, it is also deeply moving.

One comes away seething with anger at the attitudes and the events – ‘the persecution’ in Cumberbatch’s words – that destroyed Turing. ‘I miss him...’ Cumberbatch settles back on to the sofa, dispatching an espresso in a single gulp. ‘And it’s not just from playing him. I miss the fact that he’s not with us and should be with us. It’s a massive injustice, of course, but it’s also thinking about what he should have enjoyed of his life as well, and the amount of sadness in it.’ ‘Mother says I’m just an odd fish,’ an adolescent Turing tells Morcom. And he was certainly that: socially awkward, scornful of convention, a man more interested in ideas than people, who believed the only authority worth respecting was reason. Cumberbatch's co-stars in The Imitation Game include Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode It is a role that might have been tailor-made for Cumberbatch, and which he captures beautifully. Photographs show Turing as shorter and stockier, but Cumberbatch’s performance, one thinks, is surely exactly how he sounded and behaved – although, surprisingly perhaps, there is no existing film or audio recording to confirm it.

To build the character, Cumberbatch was obliged to draw on written descriptions and the memories of Turing’s contemporaries. ‘He was described as having his head down to one side and not making eye contact,’ Cumberbatch says, tipping his head. ‘When he did turn and talk to you he had a wonderful smile and was charismatic and encouraging – and polite and fast – but slowed by this pronounced speech impediment that went...’ – his voice begins to rise – ‘very high in pitch, as well as getting stuck on w-w-words.’ He has, for an instant, become Turing, and just as quickly turned back into Cumberbatch. ‘So it’s about building the elements of that into the storytelling. Of course, you have to compromise because it’s only two hours long. If the stammer was as severe as it actually was in any given moment, it would have been a longer film. And that’s not supposed to be a joke; it’s just a fact.’ ‘I spoke to his two nieces,’ he adds. ‘Even though they were very young, what they remembered clearly was feeling confident when he was around because he treated them as human beings – not as things to be seen and not heard; he wasn’t Victorian.

And that was a huge eye-opener – oh yes, because he doesn’t differentiate, does he? He doesn’t think gay, straight, child, older, stupid, less stupid. He’s not making those judgments.’ Alan Turing aged 16 PHOTO: Getty Images Turing’s sexuality is central to the film. In an age when to be homosexual was to court certain social opprobrium, Turing was necessarily discreet but never apologetic. The police officer who arrested him would later note that he made no attempt to conceal what he had done, instead volunteering a five-page statement outlining his activities – written ‘in a flowing style, almost like prose’. Turing, he concluded, was ‘a very honourable man’. As the film makes clear, his brief engagement to Joan Clarke was based, at least on Turing’s part, on intellectual compatibility rather than any physical attraction. Turing broke it off when he realised that it was impossible to maintain such a relationship, telling Clarke that he was homosexual. Turing’s biographer, Andrew Hodges, on whose book The Imitation Game is loosely based, has been reported as saying the film exaggerates Clarke’s role in Turing’s life.

And some critics have taken it to task for not being ‘sexually explicit’ enough, on the grounds that there are no scenes of Turing sexually involved with another man. His feelings for Morcom are conveyed by no more than longing glances. Cumberbatch is mystified by the criticism. ‘For me there’s explicit love in the film, and the fact of his sexuality being homosexual doesn’t make any difference. If it would have added to the film, we’d have done it. I’d have no qualms about filming those scenes, expressing that side of a character’s relationship to his body. It’s partly to do with the logical loop of the film, the poetical loop. It’s about what’s not seen, it’s about secrets, what’s repressed – and his sexuality was. This is a man who’s never going to be allowed to love, and that’s really his tragedy and the tragedy of the film.’ Andrew Hodges has noted that the field in which Turing was a pioneer was ‘not “science”, not “applied mathematics”, but a sort of applied logic, something that had no name’.

There is always a danger in any film attempting to depict genius that the complexity of their work will be lost on a general audience – a pitfall that The Imitation Game avoids by demonstrating that Turing’s genius was of a rarefied kind, and that his invention for mechanically decoding messages was a revolutionary breakthrough, without belabouring us with the details of exactly how. The Bombe code-breaking machine Turing devised at Bletchley Park during the Second World War PHOTO: Getty Images Cumberbatch achieved a B in GCSE maths – not quite enough, he acknowledges, to ‘even handle a quadratic equation’. But he devoted a good deal of time – ‘probably more than I should have done’ – to trying to understand Turing’s work. ‘I’m determined to manufacture at least the appearance of mastering whatever it is the character has to master, because otherwise there’s no point. But also, just as a layman, I’m fascinated by it. He was making a massive leap forward in the idea of anything computable being mechanised. It was the beginning of the binary coding of computers.

Within that, he wrote some of the most extraordinary algorithms, which were used to break the Enigma code, and which are still used in web-search programs like Google today.’ Turing is the second real person Cumberbatch has tackled as an actor in almost as many years – he played Julian Assange in the 2013 film The Fifth Estate. ‘I learnt my lesson with Assange that you cannot get too involved in the subject matter; that you have to focus on the character,’ he says. ‘But at the same time that was such a current story I wanted to do him justice; I didn’t want to serve him up as being some kind of two-dimensional villain. I wanted to make him into a flawed hero basically.’ Is that how he sees Assange? He stiffens slightly. ‘I’ve talked a lot about how I see him. You can dig up a quote from before and use that if you like.’ It’s a sore point.

Assange objected to Cumberbatch playing him in the film, to the point of writing him a letter (which Wikileaks published, along with a copy of the script) begging him to withdraw – ‘which was incredibly beautiful, charming, polite, very persuasive, charismatic…’ Cumberbatch rattles off the adjectives. Really? I thought it was deeply creepy, a mixture of flattery and veiled threat. For instance, ‘I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film... If the film reaches distribution we will forever be correlated in the public imagination. Our paths will be forever entwined…’ Cumberbatch raises his eyebrows, cups his hand over his mouth and whispers, ‘I know.’ PHOTO: Platon ‘There was a huge amount of passive aggression in that. I’m not stupid. I knew what he was doing; I knew that he was blindsiding me with praise, thinking my ego would be massaged by some fat, fictitious pay cheque or the idea of being “a movie star” by playing him, and that would persuade me to be some talking piece for the State Department.

I wrote back a very strong email that, unless he shows it, will never see the light of day. It’s one of the best pieces of writing I’ve ever done, I’m proud to say, and he was very polite in response. But I don’t feel the need to publish that correspondence, and I’m not going to talk about it.’ None the less it is interesting that, like The Fifth Estate, The Imitation Game should be dealing with the question of secrets, particularly given the revelations last year about the surveillance programmes of GCHQ, the government spy centre that grew out of Bletchley Park. ‘It sort of is, but more important is the idea that the man at the centre of it, who was persecuted for being different, still stands sadly for a lot of persecution that goes on around the world today. That’s what terrifies me – that it's as prevalent now, and that this is how we treated one of our war heroes, and a great scientist, someone who’s up there with Charles Darwin; he should be on banknotes. I don’t think Alan set himself up as a martyr, but he sure as hell was treated as one in a sense.’ Cumberbatch’s voice rises in indignation.

‘This was 60 years ago – here, in this country! Giving a man injections to turn him into something desexualised, that ruined his brain. He was being given weekly oestrogen doses and at one point the doctor said, this is a bit embarrassing for both us; why don’t I give you an implant so you don’t have to keep coming back for these appointments every week. He was given the implant in his thigh. It was supposed to stop after two years, and it didn’t. ‘A colleague of his whom I spoke to told me Turing had said, “It’s not really cricket, is it” – being wry and humorous about it. But then one night he pulled out a carving knife from the kitchen drawer and tried to gouge it out of his body.’ Cumberbatch sighs deeply. ‘To reach that state of mind... The only thing he had left to love – that he was legally allowed to love – was his work, and even that was denied him, to the extent that he took his own life by swallowing cyanide.’ Code-breakers at Bletchley Park in 1942 PHOTO: Getty Images Both of Cumberbatch’s parents are actors, on stage and in television.

His father works under the name Timothy Carlton; his mother, Wanda Ventham, was a familiar figure on television for her roles in such programmes as Heartbeat and Only Fools and Horses. The couple actually made a cameo appearance in one episode of Sherlock, playing the detective’s parents. Cumberbatch has a half-sister who is 18 years older than him, by his mother’s first marriage – ‘She baby-sat me’ – but admits that he was as spoilt as if he were an only child. ‘Although “spoilt” implies that you’re ruined… I didn't have to fight for my proportion of love, attention and food or the things you have to do in larger families. All of their resources were poured into me for my education [Cumberbatch went to Harrow]. But I was aware of that. I would have loved to have had brothers or sisters, or so I thought at the time. I was always very gregarious, and I don’t think they would have sent me to boarding school if I wasn’t confident with stepping away from the nest.

I love them, and I always returned to the nest with great joy.’ The Enigma machine PHOTO: Getty Images As a student Cumberbatch taught English to young monks in a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling. It instilled an interest in Buddhism that has carried on to this day. He describes himself as ‘vaguely’ Buddhist, and he meditates whenever possible. He rattles through the procedure: ‘Concentrating on your breath, the sensations from tip to toe, taking in sounds from outside and letting them pass; the same thing with thoughts.’ It was almost inevitable that he should act. He remembers as a child watching his mother on stage from the wings – ‘whichever Ray Cooney farce it was, probably Run for Your Wife’ – and being transported. ‘The bright lights, and the scenery looking something like a hotel room – just these flimsy things, and feeling this heat come off the stage, and looking out and seeing the enjoyment of the audience and the actors completely absorbed in this world that was paper thin. It was like looking behind the curtain and seeing how a magician does his tricks – and it thrilled me.’ At Harrow he acted in school productions, often taking the female role.

His performance in As You Like It, one observer was moved to note, was ‘the best Rosalind since Vanessa Redgrave’. He went on to study at the University of Manchester and then the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. The step to working actor was relatively easy: two seasons of Shakespeare at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; small parts in television series such as Heartbeat and Silent Witness. For 10 years Cumberbatch was a highly regarded actor, but by no measure a star. Then, in 2010, came Sherlock. Now he seems to be everywhere, in everthing: a kindly slave-owner in 12 Years a Slave, a Star Trek villain, the voice of Smaug in The Hobbit. How does he judge his new-found standing? By the number of roles he’s offered? The scale of the film? The size of the fee? He interrupts each question. ‘No… No… No…’ ‘What matters to me is the quality and the variety of the work. I’m in it for the long game.

I’m interested in working in 40 years’ time, and turning round and talking to an actor on set and telling them stories about working with Judi Dench and Michael Gambon. So any talk of “man of the moment” hype, heat, whatever, I just smile wryly. It’s the same shit with “sexiest whatever” – I was around 10 years before that as an actor and no one took the same face seriously.’ He shrugs. ‘It’s all projection.’ PHOTO: Platon His life, I suggest, must have changed enormously over the past couple of years. ‘Yes, as anyone’s would with the high level of over-exposure at times and that sort of popularity, yeah definitely. But I think the way to normalise is to try to adhere to who and what you did before as much as you can. People have this idea that you’re immediately bubble-wrapped and surrounded by security. I’m not. I get on the Tube and I get on my motorbike. I go to galleries and restaurants and museums and I see people, and they take photographs and I say, “Please don’t,” or whatever seems the appropriate response.

‘The strange thing is walking into a room and knowing that people recognise you, and you don’t know who they are. That’s a different energy that you have to get used to, and some days I’m good at that and some days I’m not. And when I’m not I feel self-conscious. But I still plough on with my day. I don’t scuttle home. I don’t want to live in a world where I have to build high walls.’ He will be back on location tomorrow, up to his eyes in mud. Then there’s the Christmas special of Sherlock, a film project, Hamlet at the Barbican, another series of Sherlock. His energy, I suggest, is inexhaustible. ‘No, I’m human. I’m getting older. I’m 38.’ He catches me rolling my eyes. ‘Yes, you should tell me to f*** off, I’m sure. But I’m acting with people who are half my age, people who are young enough to be my children.’ He pauses, as if this is the first time that has occurred to him.

‘Actually, that’s quite sobering...’ The Imitation Game is released on November 14 Start your free 30 day Amazon Prime trial» Video: Watch: new trailer for The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing - Telegraph Cinema Trailers Watch: new trailer for The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing A second trailer for the biopic of the Second World War code-breaker, which also stars Mark Strong and Keira Knightley By Telegraph Reporters 9:49AM BST 02 Oct 2014 A new trailer for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the Second World War code-breaker, has been released. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's film , based on Andrew Hodges's book Alan Turing: The Enigma, has been selected to open this year's London Film Festival on October 8. Turing was a pioneer of modern computing whose work at Bletchley Park's Government Code and Cypher School involved deciphering coded communications sent through the Nazis' Enigma machine. Winston Churchill credited Turing with helping the Allies to win several significant battles and saving thousands of lives.

He was nonetheless prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952 and chemically castrated; he died two years later from cyanide poisoning, aged 41. After a lengthy campaign Turing was given a royal pardon in 2013. Joining Cumberbatch in the cast are Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear and Keira Knightley, as Turing's colleague and former fiancée Joan Clarke. At one point Leonardo DiCaprio was due to play Turing, but he pulled out shortly before production began. The Imitation Game is released in the UK on November 14, and in the US on November 21 Related Content Benedict Cumberbatch in line to play Alan Turing in The Imitation Game | Film | The Guardian Benedict Cumberbatch in line to play Alan Turing in The Imitation Game Sherlock star in talks to play tragic wartime codebreaker in Hollywood biopic Benedict Cumberbatch: The Imitation Game would be the latest in a string of high-profile Hollywood roles.

Photograph: Matt Lloyd/Rex Features Monday 4 February 2013 06.57 EST First published on Monday 4 February 2013 06.57 EST Close This article is 3 years old Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to play the British mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing in forthcoming biopic The Imitation Game, reports Deadline . The Sherlock star may step into the shoes of Leonardo DiCaprio, who was frontrunner to play Turing when the film was announced in 2011. The project has the ring of Oscar bait: it is based on a script by first-time screenwriter Graham Moore, which was bought by Warner Bros for a seven-figure sum after making 2011's Black List of the most popular unfilmed screenplays in Hollywood. Turing was a wartime hero credited with cracking the German Enigma code at Britain's Bletchley Park codebreaking centre, but his life was destroyed by the period's anti-homosexuality laws. Police arrested Turing in 1952 after learning of his sexual relationship with a young Manchester man.

He made no denial or defence during his trial and, rather than go to prison, accepted injections of synthetic oestrogen intended to neutralise his libido. Turing continued to work part-time for GCHQ, the postwar successor to Bletchley Park, but his mental health is said to have suffered, and he was shut out of Britain's security operations as the country's alliance with the US increased over fears of cold war spying. He was found dead by his cleaner in 1954. The coroner's verdict was suicide, though Turing's mother believed he had accidentally ingested cyanide after a chemistry experiment. In 2009 Gordon Brown made a public apology on behalf of the British government for the way Turing was treated. Cumberbatch is flying high in Hollywood after securing roles as the main villain in Star Trek into Darkness and as the dragon Smaug in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy . He will also play Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate , a film about the WikiLeaks founder's early struggles, and is set for roles in Steve McQueen's highly anticipated Twelve Years a Slave and the film adaptation of Tracy Letts's Pulitzer prize-winning play August: Osage County .

Turing was excised entirely from the best-known recent film about Bletchley Park, 2001's Enigma . Michael Apted's film cast Dougray Scott as Tom Jericho, a character who seemed to have all the qualities of Turing, bar one vital fact: he was not homosexual and romances Kate Winslet's character. Ben Walters: Does it still matter if a film's lead character is gay? And do movie-makers need to spell it out to audiences in advance? Published: 24 Oct 2013 The Imitation Game Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Benedict Cumberbatch Movie HD - YouTube The Imitation Game Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Benedict Cumberbatch Movie HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Jul 21, 2014 Subscribe to TRAILERS: Subscribe to COMING SOON: Like us on FACEBOOK: Follow us on TWITTER: The Imitation Game Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Benedict Cumberbatch Movie HD In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal. The Movieclips Trailers channel is your destination for the hottest new trailers the second they drop. Whether it's the latest studio release, an indie horror flick, an evocative documentary, or that new RomCom you've been waiting for, the Movieclips team is here day and night to make sure all the best new movie trailers are here for you the moment they're released. In addition to being the #1 Movie Trailers Channel on YouTube, we deliver amazing and engaging original videos each week.

Watch our exclusive Ultimate Trailers, Showdowns, Instant Trailer Reviews, Monthly MashUps, Movie News, and so much more to keep you in the know. Here at Movieclips, we love movies as much as you! Category Benedict Cumberbatch as World War II codebreaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game | Daily Mail Online comments He plays the role of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, who was ‘convicted of gross indecency after engaging in homosexual relations’. And as the mathematician receives a posthumous royal pardon, a film still has been released of Benedict Cumberbatch in his new role as the wartime codebreaker in The Imitation Game. The film’s official Twitter account posted a photo of the actor poised next to an electromechanical Bombe machine, which Turing created to help break German Enigma codes. First look: A movie still has been released from The Imitation Game, in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays mathematician Alan Turing, a German Enigma codebreaker in World War II The 37-year-old actor also looked the part, wearing a smart pin-striped shirt, trouser braces and a polka-dot bow tie, with his hair neatly parted.

The photo was posed on Christmas Eve, the same day as the Queen officially pardoned Alan Turing over sixty years after he was convicted of homosexuality , which was illegal in the UK until 1967. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share ‘In honor of today's Royal Pardon, please find the first still released from the upcoming film, The Imitation Game,’ the tweet reads. Timely: The film still was released on Twitter on the same day as Alan Turing was given a royal pardon for his conviction for homosexuality Following his guilty plea and an admission of a sexual relationship with 19-year-old Arnold Murray in 1952, Turing was given the choice of imprisonment or hormone treatment to eradicate his sexual urges. The mathematician and cryptanalyst was found dead by his cleaner in 1954, two-years after he opted for the latter, with a post-mortem examination revealing the cause of death to be cyanide poisoning. The Imitation Game follows the English mathematician and logician as he helps to crack the Enigma code, with Kiera Knightly starring as fellow cryptanalyst Joan Clarke, with whom he had a short-lived engagement.

Co-stars: The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing and Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke Billed as a nail-biting race against time during the darkest days of the Second World War, the film is based on Andrew Hodges’ biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma. It also stars Matthew Goode, Allen Leech, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear and Matthew Beard. Its arrival follows a lengthy pre-production during which the Graham Moore penned screenplay was rated best unproduced script in Hollywood by Black List in 2011. The movie is filmed in various locations across England, amongst them Bletchley Park, where Turing worked throughout the war, Buckinghamshire town Chesham and Bicester Airfield in Oxfordshire. Turing's life has previously been documented in TV show Britain's Greatest Codebreaker, with Ed Stoppard taking the lead role. No release date has been set, but it is expected that The Imitation Game will come out in late 2014. Benedict Cumberbatch on portraying Alan Turing - The Scotsman Benedict Cumberbatch on portraying Alan Turing Actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty SIOBHAN SYNNOT Have your say HOW did Benedict Cumberbatch became Hollywood’s No 1 hottie? Surely not by playing brainiac geeks – or getting hitched in the pages of the Times… TO HIS Chinese fans, he is Jie Wan Fu: “the curly haired one”. The Washington Post waggishly redubbed him “Bandersnatch Cummerband”. Sesame Street’s Murray Monster calls him “Benedict Sherlock”. And absolutely no-one calls him “Benny”. Cumberbatch, left, in The Fifth Estate. Picture: Contributed “Well, very few,” reflects Cumberbatch with grim satisfaction. “They don’t live very long.” Not that long ago, when he was still a mascot for plummy period telly dramas, global audiences regarded him as “Benedict who?” Not any more. Episodes of Sherlock are watched all over the world, including by a fanbase of 69 million Chinese who tune in despite the show being officially banned from the Chinese Central Television network and other major channels for being too racy.

In the past year, he’s played Meryl Streep’s nephew, a southern slave owner in this year’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture, and a gold-hoarding dragon. No wonder American studio DreamWorks admit they send him pretty much every project they acquire. What do DreamWorks call Benedict Cumberbatch? I think they just hope that he will call them back. Called “two degrees to the right of handsome” by his Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat, Cumberbatch may skew away slightly from conventional matinee looks, but he’s strikingly distinctive. Long and lean, he’s a sharp dresser who favours skinny bespoke suits for press interviews, but it’s his intelligent, equine face that pulls attention, with wide-set almond eyes which seem to have twice the peripheral vision of everyone else’s. In 2013, he topped Empire’s Sexiest Movie Star poll. “I’m not a typical beauty,” he says, laughing. “I’ve got a long face and a long neck. I’ve grown up with this face, so when it goes on these ‘hottie’ lists it just doesn’t make much sense to me. When I started out, I was nowhere near the thousandth hottest.

It’s projection, which is flattering because it’s about the work, I suppose.” The Imitation Game. Picture: Contributed You get a small sense of how his work is regarded by walking around London on the day of the premiere for his new film, The Imitation Game. Just after midday in Leicester Square there are lines already forming for the red carpet screening in seven hours’ time. Clotted around his hotel’s two entrances, there are men and women with pictures to be signed, and mobile phones on standby. There was a similar hawkish interest at a recent Bafta Q and A; the audience was filled with alert women, keen to laugh at all of Cumberbatch’s self-deprecating one-liners. It must be heady stuff being a heartthrob, especially since, as the actor points out, the love life of most Cumberbatch characters ranges from a little sad to quite catastrophic. In The Imitation Game, the British mathematician Alan Turing registers somewhere around “it’s complicated”. One of our great war heroes, he applied computer science in its birthing hour to Enigma, a notorious Nazi code.

His code-breaking operation in Bletchley Park is generally held to have shortened the course of the Second World War by up to two years. However, Turing’s world was not totally computable: from an early age, he knew he was gay, at a time when homosexuality brought harsh jail sentences or damaging experimental drug treatments. Morten Tyldum’s film has already won the People’s Choice award for Best Film at the Toronto Film Festival, with Cumberbatch’s performance generating Oscar buzz. For a long time Leonardo DiCaprio was pegged to play Turing, but in 2013 DiCaprio dropped out and Cumberbatch parachuted in. He had learnt about Turing from school, and also Derek Jacobi’s performance as Turing in Breaking The Code on stage and later on TV. Cumberbatch familiarised himself with the German Enigma machine on display at the Imperial War Museum, but also spoke to people who had known Turing, and uncovered some endearing reminiscences from one of Turing’s nieces. “She said that as very young children, they felt more comfortable around him than any other adult. He listened to them, he didn’t patronise them and he was very entertaining.

He made them laugh a lot and did things like play games of chess with his back turned to the board.” The Imitation Game covers several milestones; a significant school crush on a fellow pupil at Sherborne School, his struggle to make the importance of a “Turing machine” comprehensible to officials supervising at Bletchley Park, and the circumstances leading up to his early, tragic death. The real Turing was shorter, darker and thicker set than Cumberbatch, but it’s unlikely that many people will quibble on these points, not least because Turing’s archive barely records his appearance. “There were lots of accounts of the way he talked and moved, and how shy he was,” says Cumberbatch, who incorporates a softened version of Turing’s stammer into his performance. “But physically there is no visual or aural recording of him, so there’s a huge blank canvas. It was a chance to personalise an extraordinary man.” A prodigy, recruited to the war effort when he was still in his 20s, Turing’s famous “imitation game” test for machine intelligence made a huge contribution to philosophy and culture by opening up a theoretical conversation about artificial intelligence.

Cumberbatch’s conversation with maths ended in a B at GCSE, and a group effort by The Imitation Game actors to challenge themselves with a little light cryptogram solving amounted to a crossword which took them five days to complete, says Cumberbatch. “I have a very superficial understanding of code-breaking algorithms, but really it’s about finding the humanity here. We can all relate to his moments of self-doubt.” The algorithms of sexual attraction are another focus of the film. Turing’s relationship with young logician Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley) presented its own logic puzzle: could a marriage of convenience bring him happiness. “What if I don’t fancy her in that way?” a beleaguered Cumberbatch asks of one of his Bletchley colleagues. Later Turing’s sexuality led to a conviction for indecency in the 1950s, which stripped him of his security clearance, and forced him to agree to chemical castration. He died, apparently from suicide, not long after in 1954. It took 50 years to rediscover Turing’s achievements, culminating in centenary celebrations in 2012 and a Royal Pardon the following year.

Cumberbatch feels that Turing is still overshadowed – “why isn’t he on some denomination of our currency or the cover of science or history textbooks?” – and when the conversation turns towards the film’s awards expectations, he says with some asperity that he wants the film to generate interest in Turing and recognise his legacy. “If it gets people to see the film, frankly that’s all I care about,” he says. “As long as it creates an interest in people to see this film and what the fuss is about, then that’s fantastic.” Cumberbatch is exasperated by press attempts to draw parallels between Turing and his Sherlock as if they were interchangeable uncompromising brainiacs; “They both have my face, but they’re utterly different people,” he says. “Turing is very quiet, stoic and determined. Yes, he’s socially awkward, but he doesn’t swish around in a coat with curly hair demonstrating how brilliant he is. I didn’t read this script thinking this was Sherlock in tweed, fiddling with valves.” The real trickiness, of course, is that Turing was a real person, with real biographers.

In the film, Turing admits his true sexuality to John Cairncross (played by Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech) who is part of Turing’s small team. Already it has been noted that Turing and Cairncross worked on different projects and probably never met. It has also been pointed out that Knightley’s character, Joan, was not quite as substantial an influence on Turing in real life as in the film. Cumberbatch has been down this road before, of course. “It’s tricky because most of the real people I have played are extraordinary, whether it is Van Gogh or Stephen Hawking or Alan Turing. All we can do is the most light, vague impression of these people and their depths. The cinema process condenses years into a eureka moment, or high drama. I know from my own research that it didn’t happen like that. You ask, ‘Why the hell are we doing anything about real people’.” In the end, he has made his peace with the process as being “fictionalised truth”. “Most audiences are canny enough to understand that,” he says. Cumberbatch’s experiences in biopics have been mixed.

When he was cast as Stephen Hawking in 2004, it was the first time anyone had essayed the physicist on screen but word came back that Hawking liked his portrayal. He even said so on Richard And Judy. On the other hand, portraying WikiLeaks warrior Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate last year was a more bruising encounter. Assange wrote a silkily insistent missive to Cumberbatch urging him not to participate in the film, which he felt would be harmful to him. The film was not a success. Assange was exultant. “He danced on the grave of the box office flop that it became – but I’d do it again tomorrow in a heartbeat,” asserts Cumberbatch. “That was very complex because it was so politicised. He thought I was working under DreamWorks/the State Department, which I protested quite fully in an email to him.” The Fifth Estate has been Cumberbatch’s only real setback so far in a career as careful as his choice of words in interviews. His recent co-star Knightley worked with him on Atonement in 2007, and confirms his energetic perfectionism. “He is always up for trying things, and looking to make a scene better,” she says.

“The only problem is that if it were up to Benedict, we would still be shooting the film. There are a million different ways of playing a scene and he wants to explore them all.” Cumberbatch is forging the sort of career that should keep us intrigued for years, combining recurring roles in huge franchises with smart, artier work. He’s been recording the voice of the tiger Shere Khan for Andy Serkis’s new film of The Jungle Book, and is about to start work as Richard III in a series of Shakespeare plays for the BBC. He’s as happy in a no-budget radio play as when signing up as Dr Strange in an upcoming multi-million-dollar Marvel movie franchise, although he admits that it is sometimes hard to shake off character traits. Sherlock, all slanted cheekbones and billowing coats, will be back in 2015, and when he is in deductive mode, “I get impatient, as my mother has pointed out to me”. Cumberbatch acted from a very young age.

In a school nativity he recalls that he “pushed Mary off stage because she was taking too long”, before adding languidly, “I haven’t done that to a leading lady since.” When he won a scholarship to Harrow, he joined The Rattigan Society for the dramatic arts and took to Shakespearean roles, including Titania, Queen of the Fairies. And of course his parents are both actors with long careers in film and television. Timothy Carlton used to read The Hobbit to his son at bedtime. He has known Dame Judi Dench since he was a small boy, as a friend of his mother, Wanda Ventham, and unshowily name-drops people like Michael Gambon as co-workers and friends he admires. No wonder Martin Freeman likes to kid that Cumberbatch is a young soul hopelessly embedded into an old thespian community. “I thought you knew every actor over 50,” he quipped when Cumberbatch was forced to ask about the background of one British veteran. “I thought there was a by-law.” Like Turing, it turns out this week that Cumberbatch is also very good at keeping secrets.

After a month of heavy press attention, he wrapped up his publicity obligations, slipped off the radar, and then published his engagement to actress/director Sophie Hunter in the Times’ classified section, breaking fans’ hearts and quite possibly the internet. The couple had appeared together in a 2009 film Burlesque Fairytales, but had only been spotted together this summer. Cumberbatch, while happy to enthuse about his plans next year for a sold-out three-month stint as Hamlet at the Barbican, had fended off any inquiries into personal projects, but perhaps the clues were there for us, if we were of a Sherlockian bent. Asked by a magazine about his hopes for the future, he had responded rather sweetly, “Living in a stonewall cottage overlooking the sea, in a temperate climate, with lots of kids.” Well why not? At least he should have plenty of ideas when it comes to giving them names.

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Jeffrey Brown talks to Shonibare about his interest in depicting globalization and what he asks of his viewers.2017-01-12 18:00:00 Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician who worked in secret to break a key Nazi Germany code, allowing Allied forces to see and plan for attacks ahead of time. Jeffrey Brown talks to Benedict Cumberbatch, star of "The Imitation Game," a new movie portraying Turing's life, about the actor’s penchant for playing complicated geniuses. RELATED Benedict Cumberbatch is Alan Turing's cousin sharing 15th century ancestor | Daily Mail Online comments He has been praised for his star performance as the code breaker Alan Turing in his latest film role. But it seems Benedict Cumberbatch’s uncanny resemblance to his subject may be down to more than just good acting…because it turns out they are related. The actor, 38, is a distant cousin of the celebrated mathematician, who broke the German Enigma code during World War Two.

Benedict Cumberbatch, pictured in a scene from The Imitation Game, is a distant cousin of the celebrated mathematician Alan Turing who broke the German Enigma code during World War Two He plays Turing in The Imitation Game, which is released in UK cinemas on Friday. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Both men share a common 15th century ancestor, John Beaufort, the Earl of Somerset, making them 17th cousins, experts from the genealogy website Ancestry said. Turing helped alter the course of the war after he created a machine that allowed the Allies to read secret German messages. Alan Turing (pictured) helped alter the course of the war after he created a machine that allowed the Allies to read secret German messages But he was persecuted by the British Establishment because of his homosexuality and is thought to have killed himself in 1954 by eating a poisoned apple. It is not the first time Cumberbatch’s ancestry has revealed surprising parallels with his film roles. The star, who won plaudits for playing a slave owner in 12 Years A Slave last year, is also descended from a long line of slave owners in Barbados.

Earlier this year, a New York City commissioner, Stacey Cumberbatch, claimed she gained her distinctive surname because her ancestors were owned by the star’s fifth great-grandfather on a sugar plantation. Cumberbatch once said his part in another anti-slavery film – Amazing Grace – was a sort of apology’ for his ancestry. He also revealed that his mother, the actress Wanda Ventham, once urged him not to use his real surname professionally in case it made him a target for reparation claims by the descendants of slaves. Miriam Silverman from Ancestry said: ‘It’s amazing to think that when stepping into the role of Alan Turing, he would not only be portraying a world class code breaker but a real life relation.’

Question: In which recent film does Benedict Cumberbatch play Alan Turing?
Answer: THE IMITATION GAME